Given the growing volume of workloads being done over the cloud, starting from CRM to content sharing to social networking, there is no denying that software or Web development is moving there, too. Moreover, the rise of mobile technologies has also geared up the cloud IDE phenomenon. These days, many IDEs are moving to the cloud. However, there are still many people and developers who are hesitant to put their full faith in a remote cloud IDE for Web development purposes.

The main benefit, of course, is it is less expensive, easy to update, use and manage. Moreover and more developers are finding cloud-based IDEs more convenient and useful due to their accessiblity from anywhere through compatible devices. They also require minimal-to-non-existent download and& installation and offer ease of collaboration.

In this article, we will cover the top 17 cloud-based IDEs Web developers can leverage from for their Web development ventures. Here they are:
Cloud 9 IDE — This is one of the best known cloud-based IDEs that provides developers with an environment for developing code in Node js, HTML5, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, C/C++, and custom. It claims to enable developers to create applications in 23 different programming languages, but the official site doesn’t clarify whether it allows developers to create applications for Java or J2EE.
Moreover, it supports all the popular version control systems like Git, Mercurial and SVN. With the help of CSSLint and JSBeautify, it is one of the finest online cloud-based environments to date.